In Relation

Peter Larkin will read from his poetry
which engages with an intriguingly scarce sense of mystery which arises from
trees, edge-lands and hinterlands, paradoxically providing a 'dense
phenomenological incitement of trees'. John Milbank will then give a talk on
'The Eight Diagonals' of poetry with the aim of locating this mystery within a
philosophical framework. The talk will argue that earth's organic crust is thin,
but even thinner is a 'spiritual crust' which breaks through the organic in a
series of diagonals (from culture to justice). Poetry is key to tracing these
diagonals which are poetic in nature.

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW

7pm Thurs 2oth June

Tickets: £5/£4 conc

Biographical Notes

Peter
Larkin’s three collections of poetry are Terrain Seed Scarcity,
(2001), Leaves of Field (2006) and Lessways Least
Scarce Among (2012). He has contributed to The Ground Aslant:
an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (2011) and published a book
of academic essays, Wordsworth & Coleridge: Promising Losses in
2012. An interview with Edmund Hardy is available at Intercapillary Space and
another has appeared (with Matthew Hall) on Cordite. A new collection Give Forest its Next Portent is due from
Shearsman in 2014.

John
Milbank is a theologian and poet. Beginning with Theology
and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Blackwell, 1990), Milbank’s work
has developed a political and social theology. His many works of
theology and philosophy include The Word Made Strange (Cambridge
University Press, 1997), Being
Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (Routledge, 2003), Truth in Aquinas (co-authored with Catherine Pickstock, Routledge,
2000) and his dialogue with Slavoj
Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (MIT, 2009). His
poetry has been collected in The Legend of Death (Cascade,
2008).

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